Qc Laboratory Technician

1 week ago


Upper Hutt, New Zealand MSD Full time

**QC Laboratory Technician - Upper Hutt, New Zealand**
- Exciting opportunity to join an innovative and evolving **Global Animal Health **company
- Drive a** market leading brand**
- **1-year Fixed Term **opportunity based at our Manufacturing site in **Upper Hutt, NZ**
- Work with a **high performing, agile **and **passionate **team
- Use your expertise to perform routine testing in a GMP environment
- ** Chemistry background preferred**
- New Graduates also welcome

Our Manufacturing Operations teams are the people that make our products. We work in the manufacturing plants with a “Safety First, Quality Always” mindset striving for continuous improvement. We work in the local plant connected to our global manufacturing network to ensure the highest quality of raw materials, intermediates and finished products.

**THE OPPORTUNITY**

Reporting to the Quality Control (QC) Manager, you will perform and document tests within the assigned QC Laboratory, monitor assay performance, plan and co-ordinate own workload and contribute to ensuring the smooth running of the area to meet schedules for release of final and intermediate products.

**What You Will Do**

**Responsibilities include, however not limited to**:

- Test antigen, vaccine and environmental samples, to required standards, according to set schedules/timelines
- Planning, conducting, reporting and interpreting routine laboratory assays in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Ensuring adequate stocks of reagents, test materials and equipment are available to perform tests on time.
- Documenting all tasks in test records, worksheets or logbooks in accordance with Good Documentation Practice
- Performing housekeeping tasks in accordance with SOPs and GLP.
- Raise and perform investigations into non-compliant samples and products, including design and execution of Corrective and Preventative Actions.
- Actively participate when required in continuous improvement activities and new product introductions within the laboratory.

**What You Must Have**
- Hold a tertiary or equivalent qualification specialising in a science discipline **(Chemistry preferred)**
- Demonstrate experience of working using aseptic techniques
- Experience with basic testing such as Sterility testing, water testing and handling of bacterial cultures
- Experience in cGMP/GLP environment preferred
- Ability to trouble shoot issues and write reports
- Well-developed skills to work autonomously as well as within a team
- Be a proactive, quality focused individual with excellent attention to detail, have good communication skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to learn quickly and retain knowledge to build on your experience

**What You Can Expect**
- A **state-of-the-art facility** that delivers solution to its customers **world-wide**
- Highly engaging team that aims to **innovate** the future
- Joining a **collaborative** team of **likeminded individuals**
- Be **developed and supported** in your career growth

**Who we are **

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

**What we look for **

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

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**Employee Status**:
Temporary (Fixed Term)

**Relocation**:
No relocation

**VISA Sponsorship**:
**Travel Requirements**:
**Flexible Work Arrangements**:
**Shift**:
**Valid Driving License**:
**Hazardous Material(s)**:
**Number of Openings**:
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**Requisition ID**:R214845



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